College of the Year 2016

India is projected to become home to the largest student population in the world by 2025. This indicates an indefinite potential for facilitating and enrolling such a high number of youths into higher education. to take advantage of this demographic dividend, the government of India has already laid plans to push the Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) upward from 23.6 percent (as per the 2014-2015 Provisional Report of the All India Survey on Higher Education, AISHE).

On the flipside, a considerable rise of private institutes in the country has reached up to 60 percent of the educational institutes in the country, allowing students to access more academic options. Quality of education has been a prominent aspect of many of these institutes, which focus on various aspects such as academic and industry collaborations apart from placements and the academic rigor. Today, there is a sea of options to choose from all these institutes, but students need to select just one. This brings in the role of well-researched reviews to provide the right direction to the youth of the country. However, listing a number of best institutes does not solve the right purpose, if it cannot give the right information about the institutes. Therefore, a palette of institutes is included in this issue of Silicon India Education varying in areas of interest explaining the 'why' factor of every institute through rigorous evaluations.

Each of these institutes has reputation of their own, showcasing their advantages in order of teaching methodology or curriculum implementation, program efficacy, quality faculty members, placement opportunities, industry collaborations and lot more. A student can avail all these advantages to make the best of everything to build his/her career. Silicon India Education- 'College of the Year- 2016' wishes all the luck to the students to make the most by going through this issue get ready to be equipped for the industry.